KIEV, April 23 – Ukraine is working to restore its missile technologies, says Oleksandr Turchynov, the country's National Security and Defense Council Secretary.

KIEV, April 23 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny said that Gazprom is hampering the process of merging Ukraine's energy systems with those of its European Union neighbors, which could help start virtual reverse flows of natural gas.

KIEV, April 23 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his French counterpart Francois Hollande have discussed bilateral cooperation in privatizing Ukrainian companies.

KIEV, April 23 – Ukrainian membership of NATO will be decided by a nationwide referendum, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"The issue of Ukraine joining NATO is a fundamental one, I'll hold a referendum, let the people decide," the Twitter page of iTele French TV quotes Poroshenko as saying in an interview on Wednesday.

KIEV, April 23 – U.S. loan guarantees for the second tranche of Ukrainian eurobonds worth $1 billion will become effective on April 24, 2015, according to an announcement by USAID.

KIEV, April 23 - The Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday that U.S. troops were training Ukrainian forces in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, but the Pentagon flatly denied it, accusing Moscow of a "ridiculous attempt" to obscure its own activity in the region, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 23 – The Ukrainian government has sent a loan request to the International Monetary Fund and hopes to get an answer by the end of the month, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, April 23 - Russia, the European Commission and Slovakia may hold talks with Ukraine on Thursday on a possible solution to the country's gas crisis, Ukraine's Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said.

MOSCOW, April 23 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of being behind the political upheaval in Ukraine and said Moscow would respond if its interests came under attack, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 23 – The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry could not confirm that there were two Ukrainians on board a helicopter that were abducted by Taliban on Sunday following an emergency landing in eastern Afghanistan.